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Mesoscale Discussion 299

March 20, 2017Ford County, Iroquois County, Vermilion County, Illinois; 45 counties in Indiana; Darke County, Preble County, Ohio

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 20, 2017, 11:19 AM CDT for Ford County, Iroquois County, Vermilion County, Illinois; 45 counties in Indiana; Darke County, Preble County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Mar 20, 2017, 11:19 AM CDT (16:19 UTC)
Expired
Mar 20, 2017, 1:45 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
20%
All 50 counties

Ford County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Bartholomew County, IN, Benton County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Jay County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Miami County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Newton County, IN, Parke County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warren County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Darke County, OH, Preble County, OH

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 176 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2017-03-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2017-03-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 469 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1065 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
469 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
455 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.2

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 19, 11:50 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBureau, Carroll, Henry, LaSalle, Lee, Marshall and 6 more85 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 2017Every mesoscale discussion in 2017

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.